6 degrees of separation

I feel that the world is really small at times. The contractor that we hire for our house renovation is my old schoolmate's (Pooi Sze) future father-in-law, well if she and his son tie the knot. I didn't know that until the contractor came and took the house keys from us the other day. Pooi Sze followed him along and only we knew it.
And it's so happened that LKC is Pooi Sze's hmmm "bau-bau bacang" relative. LKC's cousin is Pooi Sze's cousin as well.
If I were to link more, then LKC's is Michelle's "bau-bau bacang" relative too. LKC's cousin is Michelle's cousin as well. So in other words, Pooi Sze is Michelle's "bau-bau bacang" (X2) relative as well.
So the equation is something like this now:-

Pooi Sze <-> Gavin (LKC's and Pooi Sze's cousin) <-> LKC <-> Christopher ( LKC's and Michelle's cousin) <-> Michelle

And on my side, Popo is my cousin's cousin as well. We didn't know it either until one of our relative passed away.

So the equation is something like this now:-

Popo <-> my cousin <-> Me

If I were to marry LKC, so indirectly Pooi Sze, Michelle, Popo and I become relative.

This is really what we call 6 degrees of separation (Human Web)?

It's already March!

OMG, it's already March. I didn't know that I've left out this blog for so many days. The last time I blogged was on the last day of February. Time flies so fast. I'm really busy with my online business lately. Till no time to go window shopping, no time to watch TVB drama, no time to talk with LKC. The first thing I'll do when I arrive at home is to turn on the laptop, check and reply all the emails and messages, look for supplier and chat with Pei, my partner, on how we can improve our business.
When he used to be very busy with his own tasks, I was so free. I disturbed him while he worked. I complaint when I had nothing to do. It's the other way round now. He complaint that I missed him out. He complaint that I look at the monitor screen more than him. I guess Soo also complains the same things to Pei lately.
LKC, Soo and Meng are three of our backup bosses. They always go to SG8 (night club with china dolls) together, but always need to get approval from us. The reason that they gave when they required to apply the "permit" from us is "need to talk businesssarghh!!". Since Handy (another partner), Pei and I are still using our other half's money, we got no choice but to approve their "permit".
These 3 guys are so funny. They said our business is so good lately, they will wait for us to expand our business and they'll stop working. They will become our dispatch boys and we will buy a truck for each of them to deliver the products to our customers, with the condition only one day trip. No staying over night at any place.
They'll have to ask money from us to go to SG8 in future. Then we told them back that they got no more excuse to go to SG8 since they do not need to talk about business anymore. It will be the ladies' turn to go out to talk about business. The guys have to stay at home to do all the houseworks...muahaha!!
Oh by the way, we just had our first "company trip" to Kek Lok Cave...hahaha, just kidding. Just went there for a walk after a sinful lunch at Brewster.

New Items Added

New items have been added to Pink Flower Closet. We're selling beauty products as well as bags. For beauty products, we are selling Germany Sensual Ampoules at a very low price of RM50 per box of 10 3.8ml bottles. Click here for more information on this product.
Apart from that, we have just opened a pre-order for bags. These bags are not ready stock. You'll have to wait 4-6 weeks for the bags to arrive. Click here for more details.

I can feel it now

I can now feel the economy crisis. It's scary and I feel kinda regret now for the action that I took 2 weeks ago. It happened too fast, just within a week everything changed.
We have just collected the keys to our new home a moment ago. We're not excited about it at all. The agent brought us to a unit which her husband helped on the renovation. The renovation was simple and nice. We like it very much and plan to follow the design as well. The whole renovation cost was around RM10K, with kitchen cabinet + new tiles + wiring, which is a very good deal indeed. The moment we stepped out from the unit, we started to think about the money.
Do we want to renovate and move in to the house now? We'll need to prepare at RM1.5K for the house installment, maintenance fees and the utilities bills. All these were in our plan when we paid for the deposit of the house. But the economy crisis changed everything. We're now thinking of renting out the house first. At least someone could help us on paying the house installment. Sigh...what can we do now?
It's scary how things changed in the last few days...

In dilemma now...

To reconsider or not to reconsider?

Please help!

P/s: I'm still in office at this hour!! Arrghhh...I wanna get out from here.

Pink Flower Closet

Yup...that's the name of our online store. Currently we have just started out by selling clothes from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. You may go to Pink Flower Closet site for the latest stock. We are trying to bring in more clothes in the coming future and will also try to introduce more products like facial and beauty products and etc.
The clothes that are posted on Pink Flower Closet are all ready stock and real photos of the clothes are posted along with the catalog photos. Do check it out and please help to spread the words around ya! Thanks a lot.

More stocks will be coming in...please remember to bookmark Pink Flower Closet.

Forever Yours Package @ Shangri-La Hotel, Putrajaya on Valentine's Day

As I mentioned on my previous post that LKC planned a surprise for me for our Valentine's Day celebration. It was a last minute plan, as he only made the reservation on Friday morning. I slept extremely early on Thursday night after taking the flu + cough medicines and had to woke up early for morning shift on Friday. This gave the chance to LKC to do research on the Valentine's Day packages being offered in various hotels.
LKC took the Forever Yours Package offered by Shangri-La Hotel @ Putrajaya. The package included:-

• Accomodation upgrade to Deluxe Parkview Room

Super comfy king size bed + extra long pillows. I wanna get this type of bed for my home.

Very big restroom with bathtub + extra big mirror

Lavender toiletries set

• Buffet breakfast
• Romantic room setting (rose petals in bathtub, tealight candles, room aromatherapy scented) - they didn't set this up for us. I'm going to make a complain and hopefully they give us a complimentary room as a compensation...yeah, dream on!
• One small hand bouquet of roses

• Assorted pralines

Chocolates and strawberries are my favourite

• One small cakes

Yummylicious mango cake

• One hour Sunset Cocktail

A glass of beer for LKC and a glass of wine for LPC while witnessing the sunset...romantic!

• Complimentary broadband internet access

The package cost RM375 (exclusive of 10% service charge and 5% government tax).

Apart from the above, there are 24-hours gym facilities, 24-hours Business Centre and ...

Jacuzzi...it's free! Besides that they also provide steam room and sauna room. I didn't spend my time in the steam and sauna rooms as I can always go to the one at Celebrity Fitness.


Wonderful swimming pool with magnificent sunset view

Happy Valentine's Day

This is what LKC has planned for me for our Valentine's Day celebration tomorrow. I've no idea where is this place. All I know is a hotel. All I need to do is to pack my stuff as we will be spending our Valentine's day there. All I need to bring are my clothes, my camera with spare battery and charger, and most important MYSELF!! Wohoooo...I'll blog more about this when I come back from my sweet escape. Till then, Happy Valentine's Day to all.

p/s: This is the first surprise that LKC ever planned after being together for 7 years. I'm very excited about it. Thanks LKC!

Happy Belated 7th Year Anniversary

08.02.2009 was supposed to be the day we celebrated our 7th year anniversary, but sigh...tragedy happened again. If you have been following my blog for the past few years, I mentioned before that tragedy always happened on our anniversary day. There was no exceptional for this year. I had food poisoning that day. Vomit and diarrhea till I had to get injection from the doctor.

Is 8th Feb a bad date?

Happy Moo Moo Year

Finally a night at home on the whole CNY. Oh my, I feel sick when I'm at home wtf! Having running nose and cough now. The germs came earlier this year, I started to get voiceless even before CNY, which shouldn't be this way in the past few years. Anyway, how was your CNY so far? Mine was a blast! I have not been at home almost every night (except Chor 1). Here's some recap:-

CNY's Eve - Rum Jungle
Chor 1 - @ home having Open House
Chor 2 - @ Soo's place gambling
Chor 3 - @ Soo's place gambling
Chor 4 - Dinner at Unique Seafood, yum char at Oliven's Cafe then having champagne at La Amour
Chor 5 - @ Soo's place gambling
Chor 6 - @ home resting
My luck has been quite good in the year of Ox. I won RM40 + on Chor 2 and Chor 3, and won RM150+ on Chor 5. Wohoho...
Sigh...it's already Chor 6, another 3 days left only from the reality. Need to go back to KL on Chor 9 and start work on Chor 10. How I wish I could have a longer holiday, or better still a limitless holiday.
Shall enjoy my last few days of holidays to the max! I only go to sleep at around 5am daily. I like this kind of life style!! Please give me more.

Gong Hei Fatt Choy to all!

CNY coming soon

Another 5 days to go after waited for so long. Tomorrow will be my last day of work..weee! Will be celebrating my Chinese New Year in Ipoh from 23rd Jan - 3rd Feb, the longest Chinese New Year holiday I ever had since started to work.

Gong Xi Fatt Chai everyone!

Taiping Lang Restaurant

Taiping Lang Restaurant @ Bandar Puchong Jaya serves home-style nothern Malaysia-Hokkien cuisine. There are three different set of menus, namely "T", "P" and "L" and are rotated every 2 days. We did not order the set as there were some dishes that we are not a big fan of. We ordered from the ala carte menu instead.

Fried Chicken @ RM8

This is the daily special of the day. Unlike the Nyonya style fried chicken which is dry, the chicken was still juicy and tendered after frying.

Bangkuang Cha @ RM8

This is the shredded turnip with cuttlefish or better known as Ju Hu Char. This dish goes perfectly with lettuce leaves and a bit of sambal .

Kiam Chai Buey @ RM8

This is the mixed vegetable stew, which is spicy and sour in taste. It's also better known as "choi keuk" in Cantonese term. This dish was just so-so only as it wasn't spicy and sour-y enough.

Hu Pau @ RM5

This is the fish mousse steamed (otak-otak). Very nice and worth the price.

Chinese tea to wash down the oil.

Actually, I was more interested on the ambiance than the food as the decoration here was more like olden time, with antiques of all sort placed everywhere in the shop.

Taiping Lang Restaurant
No. 19-01, Jalan Kenari 18B,
Bandar Puchong Jaya,
47100 Puchong,
Selangor.
+603-80762686
info@taipinglang.com
www.taipinglang.com

The TEH

As I was chatting with LKC last night, we were discussing about the name we should give to our children in future. I was making fun of LKC's surname, Teh. As most of you should know, Teh also means tea in Malay. LKC wants to give his children some very powerful name. So I gave him some suggestions:-

• Teh Tarik
• Teh Ais
• Teh C
• Teh C Ais
• Teh O Ais
• Teh O Ais Limau

See, easily we can have a list of names for our children in future. I don't call LKC as LKC now, I'm calling him as Teh Tarik's father...kekeke, while I am Teh Tarik's mother...hahaha. Boh liau..

Poor thing

Is it too early to start it in the first place? Seems like no one bothers about you now since you have announced it about a month ago. Could it be because you don't have friends? Is that all you have? You used to have lots of friends...good friends, close friends, not so close friends but still friend friend type one. Where are they now?
I heard lots of bad comments...not so good comments. Who to be blamed now? You or those making the bad comments? I always believe that it's not always your fault when only one person comments about you. But when there is more than one...say, a bunch of friends commenting about you, I guess you are the main culprit in this friendship game.
Soon you will notice that your circle of friends is getting smaller. Invitations to a party, an event or just a dinner will become lesser. Your life is now only both of you, you and your other half. When it comes to special occasions like Christmas and NYE where everyone dresses up to party, you have no plan on who/ where/ how to celebrate it. It is not something fun. At the end of the day, you will start thinking "we have no friends". It's not a smart move, in fact, it's a very stupid move for avoiding your friends. They do not need you to be around as they always have others. You need to have them around as they are your only friends.

This post may come a little bit late...anyway, it's time for you to start pondering...